Chapter 2: Cooking Up Raw Photos
In This Chapter
Understanding why you should use raw
Gearing up for raw
Digging into the raw fundamentals
Stepping it up with advanced raw development
If you want the best quality, the most flexibility, and the greatest range of creative control over your photos, you’ve come to the right chapter. Digital SLR cameras have an industrial-strength image quality option called RAW (in addition to several types and sizes of JPEG, the standard photo file).
The raw file has data from the camera’s sensor that hasn’t been messed with yet. Raw images are, in essence, unfinished (hence the name). The tradeoff to having the highest quality is that someone has to finish them. That someone is you.
You read a little bit more about raw photo files in this chapter and a lot more about some of the software you can use to process them into finished images that you can show off.
Making the Most of the Least (Processed)
Raw image files have the best raw photo data that your camera can produce. Therefore, raw images are considered the best source material with which to ...
